"Yuk Tang" <jim.laker2@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:Xns974BD3A7E7E0Ajimlaker2yahoocom@130.133.1.4...
>I have created my own custom forms called baseform, inheriting normal
> form properties and such. Baseform is, as can be expected, the basis
> for the other forms in my project. I want to close all forms
> whenever the x is clicked on any of those forms, so I go to the
> closing event and cycle through the forms collection, closing each of
> them down like so.
>
> either
>
> Forms(n).Close
>
> or
>
> Systems.Windows.Forms(n).Close
>
> or something similar. But to my surprise, I don't get the count
> property as an option to get n number of forms, and manually putting
> in a number doesn't offer close as a valid method either. My guess
> was that, since baseform inherits from form, so baseform would be
> part of the forms collection as a result.
>
> I can work around it by putting in a method that checks and closes
> each form by name, but I'd have thought looping through the
> collection via index numbers would be a simpler solution.
>
> I have the feeling that I'm missing something obvious here. Can
> someone help? Thanks.
>
>
> --
> Cheers, ymt.